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Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. The panellists discuss the political themes within Shakespeare’s plays and consider how he voiced the political...
BBC currents affairs series in which parliamentary reports are presented by Andrew Neil and Jenny Scott. This edition reported on the Labour Party Conference, the last conference with Tony Blair as leader....
Video podcast presenting an analysis of political and legal developments in late Elizabethan England and their representation in Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on contemporary debates concerning the powers...
Recording of Senator Sam Ervin (Democrat) at the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, aka Senate Watergate Committee. In a debate with Herbert L. Porter (Nixon’s campaign aide)...
Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 4 traces the colonial economic legacy, the development of slavery, and European control of Africa’s natural resources, with...
Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 6 looks at the history of governance in Africa. Includes an extract (5 mins) in which an actor delivers Mark Antony’s funeral...
Inspired by the songs from "As You Like It", musician, Anjana Vasan, performs a musical triptych which follows the trajectory of a relations that doesn’t end well.
An experimental short, shot on Super 8, by amateur British filmmaker Reg Lancaster. The film is inspired by the public sector workers’ strike in 1978-79 which brought about the downfall of Callaghan’s...
American television series about the inner workings of the federal government starring Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet. In this episode President Bartlet issues an illegal order to assassinate a...
A Brazilian version of Hamlet directed by Marcelo Marchioro. The play explores contemporary political and ideological issues and, coincidentally, premièred on 20th August 1992, one month before the...
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